‘Lost World’ of Gravitational Waves Reveals The Origins of Black Holes
A brave new world of black hole science.
Controversial ‘JuMBO’ planets discovered by James Webb telescope may not be an illusion after all
Two pairs of ‘rogue’ Jupiter-size, planet-like objects have been found in a large star-forming region in the Milky Way, a new study claims. The findings suggest the weird objects actually do exist, and are not an illusion.
The ‘Doomsday Glacier’ is poised to lose its ice shelf this year. An Antarctic researcher explains what that means for global sea levels
Researchers have warned that the Thwaites Glacier, one of the largest glaciers in the world, is about to lose its eastern ice shelf. We spoke to marine geophysicist Robert Larter about what this means for the “Doomsday Glacier.”
The World Cup Is a Petri Dish
Millions of international visitors are coming to North America for the competition, and the odds are that quite a few will be unwell.
Bizarre beaked reptile from New Mexico turns out to be a toothless cousin of crocodiles
“It’s sort of a side branch.”
Something Just Passed Between Us and a Distant Star.
In December 2019, astronomers detected a one hour brightening of a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a classic gravitational microlensing event. These occur when a compact object bends a distant the light of a distant star as it passes in front of it. The object responsible in this instance, named Phoebe, has a mass of roughly three times that of our Moon making it far too small to be a stellar black hole, but consistent with a primordial black hole formed moments after the Big Bang.
Russian cosmonauts install sun-watching telescope on ISS during 6-hour spacewalk
The Solntse-Teragerts telescope will observe and collect data about strong solar flares emanating from the sun.
A severed piece of sea cucumber refused to die, and what happened next could transform medicine
From the revived corpse of Frankenstein’s monster to the disembodied hand, “Thing,” in the Addams Family, reanimated tissue is one of the most enduring images in science fiction. It turns out, that image …
Astronomers weighed a ‘little red dot’ discovered by the James Webb telescope — and found a ‘naked’ black hole inside
Astronomers weighed a black hole in a “little red dot” discovered by the James Webb telescope. They found it to be so overmassive that it may have formed before its host galaxy had a chance to develop.
The asteroid that ended the dinosaurs happened to strike a shallow seabed rich in sulphur and buried hydrocarbons, throwing soot and aerosols into the sky — and researchers argue the same rock hitting most other places might not have ended their reign.
The asteroid that struck near Chicxulub, in what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, about 66 million years ago did not hit a random patch of the planet. It hit a shallow tropical seabed layered with sulphur-bearing rock and buried hydrocarbons. A 2017 paper in the journal Scientific Reports argues that this detail did much of […]